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acknowledgments
Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director, American Library Association / ix
preface
Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities / xi
introduction
Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond / xv
Part 1 . Imagining War
1 Louisa May Alcott, 1862
Journal kept at the hospital, Georgetown, D.C. / 5
Part 2 . Choosing Sides
2 Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852
“What To the Slave is the Fourth of July?” / 15
3 Henry David Thoreau, 1859
“A Plea for Captain John Brown” / 31
4 Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
First Inaugural Address / 41
5 Alexander H. Stephens, March 21, 1861
“Cornerstone” Speech / 51
6 Robert Montague, April 1–2, 1861
Speech for Secession of Virginia / 59
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7 Chapman Stuart, April 5, 1861
Speech for Virginia Remaining in the Union / 69
8 Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 2007
Excerpt from Reading the Man: A Portrait of
Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters / 73
9 Mark Twain, 1885
“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed” / 99
10 Sarah Morgan, May 9 and May 17, 1862
Excerpts from Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary
of a Southern Woman / 107
Part 3 . Making Sense of Shiloh
11 Ambrose Bierce, 1881
“What I Saw of Shiloh” / 117
12 Ulysses Grant, 1885
Excerpt from Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / 137
13 Shelby Foote, 1952
Excerpt from Shiloh: A Novel / 145
14 Bobbie Ann Mason, 1982
“Shiloh” / 163
15 General Braxton Bragg, May 3, 1862
Speech to the Army of the Mississippi / 179
Part 4 . The Shape of War
16 Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008
Excerpt from This Republic of Suffering:
Death and the American Civil War / 185
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17 Gary W. Gallagher, 1999
“The Net Result of the Campaign was in Our Favor: Confederate Reaction to the Maryland Campaign” / 195
Part 5 . War and Freedom
18 Abraham Lincoln, August 14, 1862
Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes / 205
19 John M. Washington, 1873
“Memorys of the Past” / 211
20 Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation / 221
21 Frederick Douglass, March 1863
“Men of Color, To Arms!” / 225
22 Abraham Lincoln, August 26, 1863 and April 4, 1864
Letters to James C. Conkling and Albert G. Hodges / 229
23 Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863
Gettysburg Address / 237
24 James S. Brisbin, October 20, 1864 and
Thomas J. Morgan, November 23, 1864
Reports on U.S. Colored Cavalry in Virginia / 239
25 Colored Citizens of Nashville, Tennessee, January 9, 1865
Petition to the Union Convention of Tennessee Assembled in the Capitol at Nashville / 243
26 Margaret Walker, 1966
Excerpt from Jubilee / 251
27 Leon F. Litwack, 1979
Excerpt from Been in the Storm So Long / 261
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28 Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865
Second Inaugural Address / 271
Part 6 . Images of War
Images of War: Firsthand Drawings and Printed Engravings
Judith Bookbinder, Co-Director, The Becker Collection, Boston College / 275
James E. Taylor, April 10, 1865
Dedication of a Monument to the Memory of the Heroes of the
New Hampshire Regiment Killed in the Battle of Winchester / 282
from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 6, 1861
The United States General Hospital at Georgetown, D.C.,
Formerly the Union Hotel / 284
Henri Lovie, September 5, 1862
Squirrel Rifles: Sketch at the Depot in Xenia, Ohio / 286
Henri Lovie, April 6, 1862
Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Shiloh, Tennessee:
Centre, Sunday Morning / 288
Alfred R. Waud, September 17, 1862
Citizen volunteers assisting wounded in the field of battle / 290
from Harper’s Weekly, January 3, 1864
Colored Troops Under General Wild Liberating Slaves
in North Carolina / 292
sources / 295